Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 216 combat engagements in the past day, citing 66 airstrikes with 164 guided bombs, 4,122 shellings including 124 MLRS barrages, and 4,082 kamikaze drones used.
- Defenders in the Pokrovsk sector reported stopping 75 assault and offensive actions, which the military describes as the most intense fighting along the front.
- Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi stated that Russian forces neither control Pokrovsk nor have operationally encircled Ukrainian units there.
- Local authorities announced evacuations from frontline settlements in Dnipropetrovsk region as residents depart areas increasingly exposed to strikes and drone surveillance near Pokrovske.
- Analysts and the DeepState project report Russian incursions into Dnipropetrovsk and the occupation of several villages, and assess that Moscow seeks to threaten Zaporizhzhia and disrupt Ukrainian logistics on the N‑15 corridor, with some recent local advances moving rapidly.